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Citizens' attitudes towards active participation in smart cities

City managers are increasingly more aware of technology advancements and invest more efforts in the development of smart solutions that contribute to solving relevant issues in the cities. To successfully prioritise, design and develop smart city solutions, it is good practice to provide and ensure the possibilities of active participation of those who build the city - its citizens. Although such a concept is still not widely adopted, it is becoming more popular with the proliferation of new technologies and services for smart cities. Numerous cities, from those with a population of millions to those with population of just a few thousand, are becoming polygons for citizen action and engagement through digital platforms with the aim to improve the environment and communities they live in. This paper analyses this specific potential and brings forth international and national examples of successful active citizen participation scenarios. To support the secondary data analysis, a study on a local level was conducted in Split, Croatia, with a view to explore the awareness and the potential for employing active citizen participation methods and tools with over 500 citizens. The results provide valuable insights into needs and preferences in terms of active participation in a city that recently started its transition to becoming a smart city.

Smart City ; Active Citizen Participation ; e-Participation

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